The Montana Supreme Court upheld a part of the state’s anticorruption law banning corporations from making political expenditures from general treasuries. The majority and a dissenting opinion agree that Citizens United has given corporations too much power, barely distinguishable from bribery.

President Rafael Correa of Ecuador is leading a campaign against free speech: forcing independent broadcasters off the air and hijacking the nation’s courts in his bid to bankrupt the country’s largest newspaper. All the hemisphere’s democratic leaders should push back.

Newt Gingrich’s tax return demonstrates that he’s anything but an “anti-establishment” candidate. A consummate insider, he made a lucrative living trading on his political connections.